Desperately seeking sound filmstrips like this one to preserve! Nobody in America is properly preserving them but me, and most have already been thrown away. E-mail [email protected] if you can help.<br /><br />These videos cannot be monetized. Any ads are being run by YouTube. If you want to help me keep preserving media, become a patron at <a href="https://patreon.com/uncommonephemera" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://patreon.com/uncommonephemera</a> or buy me a cup of coffee at <a href="https://venmo.com/u/uncommonephemera" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://venmo.com/u/uncommonephemera</a><br /><br />We don't get into current events here at Uncommon Ephemera, but if we did this would be a safe place to start. With various polls across all political and societal demographics indicating the United States ranks near-last in its trust of the media, it might not be a bad idea to send this primer from the Scooby-Doo Gang on what the press does - or is supposed to do - to your least-favorite person in the media.<br /><br />And yet, despite the apt instruction, there's something notably off-model about this particular set of filmstrips from Hanna-Barbera. While all the Scooby-Doo filmstrips released by the Hanna-Barbera Educational Division were non-canon, and the characters simply shoehorned into scripts written by educational consultants with very little care, "Let's Go to Press" additionally has the jarring distinction of looking like it was finished hastily by interns. A few frames at the beginning of Part 1 are distinctly different from the rest; then, suddenly, a few frames later, they are drawn again in the same manner as the rest of the Scooby-Doo filmstrips. This trend of randomly-inserted amateurish renderings of the characters continues throughout all four filmstrips in this series, but only in this series. Part 2 is not quite as bad as part 1, but has more frames where the Gang isn't pictured, leaving less opportunities for comparison.<br /><br />As with all the Scooby-Doo filmstrips published by Hanna-Barbera, Velma is voiced by Patricia Parris, known more for her role as Shelly on Jabberjaw, leaving one to wonder how Casey Kasem and Don Messick were able to make space in their schedules to voice Shaggy and Scooby but Pat Stevens wasn't. As was the case with all the Scooby-Doo filmstrips, Fred and Daphne are absent as characters with speaking roles, though they make a one-frame appearance in this filmstrip.<br /><br />Now that Shaggy's got the basics down, Part 2 focuses on Velma explaining what news is and is not. She takes Shaggy and Scooby to the school, and they're ready to help collect evidence and solve the mystery. But Velma's already collected all the clues she needs to start writing her story. They retire to the school newspaper office where Shaggy and Scooby ask more questions and watch as Velma writes the story. Despite finishing the story, Velma reminds Shaggy and Scooby there's still a lot to learn about journalism, se<br />...<br /><a href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28vkhHITmw" target="_blank" rel="nofollow">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=o28vkhHITmw</a>